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> What is wrong with const-correctness in C?

One problem is that most C compilers accept implicit conversion between unrelated pointer types by default. If you accidentally pass a `const T*` to a function that takes a `T*`, you only get a warning. In C++ this is always a compiler error.

Another thing that I find very annoying (that is more about `const` in general): in C you cannot use `const` variables as compile time constants, instead you always have to use the preprocessor.

> but if you program C more you should have a go-to library or your own implementation.

Sure, but I still don't like the fact I need to find a third-party library (or roll my own) for the most basic data structures. Also, it's not like generic containers can be trivially implemented in C. They require lots of preprocessor magic and the resulting API will always be much worse than any equivalent C++ implementation, in particular with non-trivial types.
Boooo :)
Since a peninsula is just an extension of a larger landmass, isn't the exact line dividing the "peninsula" from the rest of the land mass somewhat arbitrary? It seems like it's arguable whether Andorra is on the peninsula or not. Looking at a map, it seems to me like you could draw the line between Bayonne, France, to Tarragona, Spain, leaving Andorra out. Conversely, you could draw the line between Bayonne and La Palma (just south of Narbonne), which would include a decent chunk of France. Disclaimer: I am not a geographer.
Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction
Israel is not the product of "the latter end of colonialism". It was the product of the Holocaust, which occurred just three years before its founding.

Should Europe have used Palestine for this purpose, that is debatable. But to lump it into the same colonial endeavors such as England's occupation of India or Belgium's occupation of the Congo just doesn't add up.
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Our LMM are great semantic and syntactic foundations toward AGI. It took 700 million years of metazoan evolution to get to Homo heidelbergensis, our likely ancestral species. It took about 1/1000 of that time to go to the moon; maybe only 5300 years if we limit to our ability to write.

I say this as a half joke: “At this point, the triviality of getting from where we are to AGI cannot be under-estimated.”

But the risks and tsunamis of change can probably not be overestimated.
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It's not the big swings you're trying to avoid, you're just trying to average together a bunch of interday minor ups and downs so your starting price is not as volatile.
Hey that brought it down to about 650ms. Thank you! That's a noticeable improvement.
Not if the wife is a dakimakura and the kids are anime figurines
He started and then sold a machine learning startup to Uber. He's also written multiple books about the construction of the human mind and he has a PhD from MIT. I would hardly call that creating nothing. He's not clamoring for attention, he's asking that AI be regulated and pointing out a lot of the glaring issues with the field.
I volunteered at a museum when I moved to a new city, thinking that I would meet people. I determined that exactly two types of people volunteer at museums: students/recent graduates that want to build a career in that field, or retired folk.

I wasn’t in a phase where I desired meeting either of those groups, so while volunteering was a positive experience, the social aspect of it was not.

I actually felt a little guilty volunteering-- the selection process was a little competitive and I didn't want somebody who wanted to get a start in their career turned away.
Use it or lose it (or never gain it in the first place).

In a past job I have worked with other engineers and even some, who were senior engineers, however, I was the only one, who was able to write a proper shell script. This knowledge came in handy also for writing CI files, which somewhere tend to have shell commands in them.

You don't do it yourself, you don't learn it. Simple as that.
Is 1% reflectance really so low as to be termed ultrablack? As opposed to "very black" or whatever.

The word ultrablack appears 9 times in the article, if you were curious.
>"If you going out trying to find a friend, friends are scarce. If you go out trying to be a friend, friends are everywhere."

My brain solidified late, in my late 30s, but it did eventually solidify and when it did something like a switch or circuit breaker flipped and I came to this conclusion

I'm going to pretend that I came to it independently.

I have more, closer, friends in my 40s than I did at any time in my life previously.

I don't even know how it happened, I think that I just stopped caring about any potential for embarrassment and I learned that a good conversation is equal parts statements and questions.
Nobody tell Anish Kapoor about them.

https://www.thecollector.com/vantablack-anish-kapoor-stuart-...
I wouldn't be so certain. After all it is unknown to the extent each unique biological aspect of the neuron actually matters to the function of the brain and mind.

If it turns out it is the higher order network effects that are more important, then these lower level "implementation details" will be of practical insignificance.
South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC
Dunno about everyone but my 9-5 salary is awesome. I do Vulnerability Research at an MIT lab. Working there is amazing. Much rather my situation than one where I am forced to “trade” and make it big in order to eat and or anything else in life. Great 9-5 jobs are out there and it’s funny because I used to think of them as “awful slave” jobs. Used to think having to do a 9-5 was something to avoid at all costs. Came to realize I enjoy guaranteed income and job security over anything else. Sorry for bad grammar; typing on phone..
I saw this a couple years ago. It was great looking then. I finally got around to trying to model some "real" considerations today, and it's just an awesome experience to use/explore so far. Congrats on the success, and great work! (and next, checking out the podcast, and probably subscribing to the service)
The TV series does too, indirectly. Look up the etymology of the expletive "felota".
Try the Warp terminal app. That’s what I use and it does this. Its other main deal (to me) is that you can use the mouse and any other normal means to edit a command line. Really good for changing something on like line 1 of a 17-line curl command.
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Productivity has always meant the ability to do more with less. Or it can mean doing even more with more.

Were we at a peak 1000+ years ago and have only gone downhill since at every technological breakthrough?
This model is actually pretty bad. Sure, it can do things like solve math equations from an image, but the vision part of that is basic OCR. In terms of actual vision capabilities, i.e. understanding dense images correctly, these models all fail the same.

Over the past year, researchers have been benchmark chasing, without caring about the actual abilities of these models. This is especially damning in the vision space, where most "vision" benchmarks consist entirely of either of leading questions that trivialize the image understanding part, or are straight up A PNG version of a regular LLM benchmark, once again reducing the importance of vision down to being able to OCR.

Due to this, it appears the main take-away for researchers in the field has been "Vision Ability improves with LLM size." and I wish I was joking. This willful misunderstanding is reflected in their architectural choices. 99% of current VLM rely on some flavor of CLIP models to interpret images, with very little attempts made to improve beyond that as it does not show improvements on current benchmarks.

Let's take one classic example picture, I like to feed these models just to see if maybe I was wrong about all this. The task is simple. Describe the image. https://preview.redd.it/hqu05vlmzu8e1.png?width=1516&format=...

It utterly fails, and hallucinates a ridiculous amount while doing so. There is honestly about as much wrong about the description as there is right. No current VLM open source or closed can properly find who is holding the candy bucket in the front. None. Not Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama3.2, Qwen, or anyone else.

And it is all because benchmarks are king, and innovation is dead.
I think if LLM's weren't subsidized with investor money and they had to charge what it costs to keep these things trained and running, then the economic "value" of replacing a human in most contexts would slip away. (Especially since you need human oversight anyway, if the decision is at all important)

It's just madness to me. Even if you think these things can reason well with enough training (which, to be clear, I don't), the main unsolved issue with them is: hallucinations. I can't think of any way to justify entrusting important decisions to a person/system that routinely hallucinates.

Not to mention that the other important thing you'd want in any decision maker is an ability to report its level of confidence in its own findings.

LLMs regularly hallucinate and present those hallucinations with exceptional confidence. And these aren't small hallucinations, these are, for a human, fireable offenses; like inventing fake sources, or spreading false rumours about actual humans (two things that have occurred already).

Also, even for things like filtering resumes or flagging something for further review, you have to consider that these things have biases and are sometimes accidentally racist or discriminatory in unexpected ways. I could easily imagine a company facing a discrimination lawsuit if it let AI filter resumes or do similar tasks.
I agree, it's a very annoying trend recently. Just use proper capitalization, stop calling attention to your writing style.
Insects don't sound too appetizing to me, either. However, as I mentioned in my previous post, one huge difference I see between insects and lobster/shrimp/crab is that with the latter, we don't normally eat the shell. (Some people actually do eat whole shrimp, shell and head included.) Instead, we pull the fleshy parts out of the shell and eat that. With modern-day insects, this generally isn't convenient or feasible, because most insects just aren't big enough to do this. I suppose it's possible with those gigantic beetles that are the size of some people's hands, but certainly not with crickets or grasshoppers. Having to eat the entire insect, shell and all, would make the culinary experience quite different I think.
He and his company aren’t trying to raise money so it’s less important he becomes famous.
Also about less context switching. If autocomplete gives me a full method name that I kind of remember, it saves me a trip to the browser and coming back, which saves a lot of time and avoid a family of errors when they add up.
No one had an opinion about Vietnam? I was 13 in 2003, plenty of people had an opinion about 9/11, civil liberties, and Iraq.
This is the way. Boring is, well, boring. Slice off some small percentage to do high risk investments with to sate your FOMO. Buy GME, sell it for Doge, and short TSLA with that pool after inhaling too much r/WSB because you want to think you're a genius.
> Clients regularly tell carpenters to “just do X” against the professional’s better judgement. The carpenter isn’t going to call the collapsing Jerry rigged staircase tech debt, instead they tell the client “no, I won’t do it”.

> Our profession generally lacks sufficient apprenticeship. We could learn a thing or two from student doctors doing their rounds.

I'm not sure how apprenticeship would solve this problem in software. To me, the difference seems to be that unlike carpenters, most people in software don't work on a contract basis for specific clients, but as an employee of a specific company. We don't have the authority to just refuse to do what we're told, and even in fairly good workplaces where you can voice technical disagreement without fear of repercussions, at the end of the day you'll often get overruled and have to go along with what you're told.
The later CRT models you are describing here are not coveted by retro gaming enthusiasts (which the people involved here clearly are) since the digital nature of them meant they introduced a ton of processing that negates the near zero input lag all earlier analog CRTs benefit from. Many of the later digital models can actually be had for much cheaper these days than the full analog ones despite looking more powerful on spec sheets.
Yup. It’s just an excuse for their awful behavior.
The down rounds have started for those companies that either haven’t found product market fit, or aren’t in contention on leaderboards. Especially those companies that are a OpenAI wrapper and can be easily replaced by a new, more broadly applicable, foundation model or a new modality model.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-down-rounds-rise-valuatio...
I don't recall any opinions about Vietnam and would probably have remembered if someone had expressed an opinion to me.

And the war or whatever we call the situation in Gaza would be something I'd want to shield my 13-year-old child from having any knowledge of if I were a parent -- for basically the same reason I'd want to shield them from learning about sadomasochistic sex as long as possible.
I’m 36 and my new daughter (8 months) has helped me come out of my shell. It’s given me something to connect with other people about.
If you compare the forward PE ratio to the regular PE ratio on most of these stocks you will see their profits are growing extremely fast. NVDA has a trailing PE of 55 but a forward PE of 32. TSM has PE of 33 but a forward of 23! A business growing profitability that fast is going to be valued at a premium.
Double precision is not used in either inference or training as far as I know.
Sure, and to call men second class citizens under any definition is absurd.
Likewise! I can understand drugs and such… But gambling? At least with drugs you have a guaranteed reward. You purchase heroin and you use it, you’re high. Task accomplished gambling it like “here’s money so I might possibly get high if I’m lucky.”
No, only the men using them as props to prove men are "second class citizens".
I would think that the ways that people generate consistent alpha would include scale advantages, information asymmetry, execution advantages, geographical advantages and a strategic edge. Usually some combination of those factors.

Someone like Warren Buffet has a once in a generation skill combined with massive scale and information advantage (he sees deals in publicly-traded stocks before anyone else). You may claim that it’s not fair to cite Buffet here, but he’s just the most public example of market actors with a durable advantage.
This also works for hosting things in general, not just meetups. If you host something then everyone there will want to make friends with you.
Yes, there are many problems that are unique to men that society does not address. I would not say that is because men are not adequately represented in the halls of power, or because society does not adequately cater to men's needs. "Second class citizen" is patently absurd.
Hopefully because it has predictive power. Scientific consensus is a proxy for that, but lets not mistake the proxy for the actual thing.
Theranos didn't have 10 different competitors doing the exact same thing. A new AI model which scores better on a random metric isn't going to suddenly make them the top model that everyone uses unless they're actually good. So while Theranos cheating would help put them in stores like CVS, an AI company cheating would just mean that they make a few sales before everyone realizes that their model is actually pretty bad compared to all the competitors.
There's lots of clubs that are politically aligned. Board games and Dungeons and Dragons and maker spaces tend to be progressive, certain types of volunteering lean conservative.
oh how i wish hinton would have retired ...
Being one of those lucky few at Google Brain who switched into ML early enough to catch the wave... I fielded my fair share of questions from academic friends about how they could get one of those sweet gigs paying $$$ where they could do whatever they wanted. I wrote these two essays basically to answer this class of questions.

Why did Brain Exist? https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/why_brain/
Who pays you? And why? https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/who_pays_you/

Free lunch briefly existed for a small lucky few in 2017-2021, but today there is definitely no more free lunch.
>With all due respect, (B) is logically unsound in my mind.

That's because you're concerned about finding out what happened. Not everyone thinks like that, namely some (many) are concerned about creating what happened.
If you are or know someone who uses the time savings from not commuting to persue anything outside the house, you are in the vast minority.
>Because JSON is fucking horrible for humans?

It's better than XML at least.
Not yet. It is a serious error to think of action potentials as the relevant variable of cognition. The real action is subthreshold ionic currents, neuromodulatory tone, and even the big mess of cytosilic, mitochondrial, and nuclear metabolism. The CNS is a hugely complex analog computation matrix that only uses action potentials for INTRAcellulat communication. Everything between cells is comparatively subtle ionic and chemical flux.

Modeling at this level may be practical in retina at some point but modeling the entire CNS for pragmatic gains for Alzheimer’s disease research is not going to work.

And embodiment is critical. The brain is not a Cartesian input-to-output machine. It is almost the opposite. See the “enactivist” philosophy of cognition (Noe, Velera, Maturana).

(I also worked on the EU Human Brain Project with Markram and others; also on several similar NIH programs. )
The former is likely true, but the latter is not:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42505496

That being said, the IP blocks are shared by their iGPUs, so the discrete GPUs do not need to recoup the costs of most of the R&D, as it would have been done anyway for the iGPUs.
I haven't seen any use case of them that I would consider legit (they're used for messing with other smart contracts/DEXes), but flash loans are a cool idea: You can borrow coins only if you return them within the same transaction. Obviously very low risk for the lender, so you're essentially paying to borrow someone's liquidity for a tx.

I'd say the decentralized exchanges (DEX) themselves and some other DeFi (decentralized finance) features are legit innovation though.
He has a company?
It simply hasn't come up: none of the teams I've ever worked on have chosen CMake. I've certainly encountered & compiled libraries which use it, but I've never had any reason to edit a CMakeLists file myself.

Of course CMake has only really been a practical tool for 20-ish of those 30-odd years, and "Modern CMake" was only published twelve years ago; it's definitely gained a lot of popularity over the last decade, but the idea that CMake is the default C++ build system, not just one among many, still feels to me like a recent change.
286082 is still insane though
Big agree on Intel working on SYCL. I've millions of tasks thru SYCL llama.cpp at this point, and though SYCL reliably does 5-6x the prompt processing speed of the Vulkan builds, current Vulkan builds are now up to 50% faster at token generation than SYCL on my Intel GPU
ISS Mimic team member here - I love it. Great work!

And for anyone worried about astronaut privacy, the urine tank quantity does not reflect ... direct addition of urine from a crew member ;)
Corporate "Offline" version. Yeah it is not: https://pasteboard.co/RN7nDiZfHztb.png - but hey there is also Upgrade Agent that lunches after install, also "Offline" ;P

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I just did not figured out how to fix side scroll wheal which does not work on web pages in any browser... and how to fix Logi Agent preventing Windows shutdown each time I shutdown my PC.

Ower 700 MB of crap to spy on you. Can we call this scamware?
"Manipulative Slot Machines (MSM)" maybe? "Zucktube", "Antisocial Media", "Ragescrolling"

I'm not sure any of those are quite perfect though. I fear that I'm sounding a bit like an old fart that calls it InstaFaceSnap.
Well, when you pump out nothing but looter shooters and Fortnite clones, you shouldn’t be surprised.
You're right in that sense that people think they can learn to be the best, and fail at it, as only few succeed. The game wouldn't have tournaments if that were true no one could consistently win financially.

You're also right that it triggers the addiction itch in some vulnerable individuals!

I play poker and would never be stupid enough to put real money on it. It's great as a social game for me where 25 dollars is the risk.

Don't hate the game...